Byzantium Dos said, did you know that the longest recorded empire in Western culture is the Byzantine Empire. It lasted for approximately eight hundred years. I would have thought that Western culture would be very proud of this and ensure every current citizen would be aware this. I am surprised that children are not examined on the year that the Holy Bible was canonized in the Byzantine Empire and that Byzantine was the first Empire to adopt Christianity as the one and only religion. This was all conducted in the Greek language and not translated into Latin until a thousand years later. Why does Rome get all the Western Christian glory when it is a relative late comer and was still very pagan when Byzantium was at its zenith.
I suppose most citizens don’t have much time to delve into the history books to be aware of such things. When it comes down to being ‘on the line’ for historical information, you do need to know what questions to ask, or you will simply get advertisement for products and services you can happily live without.
Dollcee asked, how do you figure out the question to ask, when you are only aware of who are the current celebrities?